L33 Psych 360 Lecture 17: Lecture 21 - outline
7 Dec 2020
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Judgment of fake news: real life judgments of when to make certain inferences, constantly required to evaluate news for validity and truth, is this susceptible to the same heuristics, participants view 3 real and 3 fake news headline. Illusory truth effect: prior exposure to an item increases ease of processing of the new item. 4k:1w, monkeys were indifferent (indifference point: so, 1 water=4 kool-aids equal utility, found two types of neurons, firing rate of neuron that encodes value of amount of kool- Aid, then time interval, then animal chooses: condition 1: electric current through ofc during offer 1, increased preference for offer 2, condition 2: current through ofc during offer 2, increased preference for offer 1. Free when choose print and web subscription compared to print-only subscription: suggests eu theory doesn"t quite work, decoy effect: violation of consistence through a third, irrelevant, option.
